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Interesting question. Well, my mom said that if I had been a boy she probably would have named me Stephen. She likes that name. So if she had boy girl twins we'd be Tawnee Marie and Stephen Jeffrey (after my dad). Hey, it kinda rhymes. Haha.

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If I had a girl twin and I could choose her name I'd make it matchy. It'd have to be another color name. Hmmm...Tawnee Marie and Lavender Joyce. Joyce would be after my grandma on my mom's side. Marie is the name of my great-grandma so Joyce would fit in with that.

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Tawnee Marie and Stephen Jeffrey
Tawnee Marie and Lavender Joyce

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My grandma (mom's mom) picked out my first name, Tawnee, because it reminded her of the Native American tribes Pawnee and Shawnee. She was nearly full-blooded Cherokee herself, but I don't think she was very close to her heritage. Still, naming me a name that sounds similar but isn't actually the name of a tribe (which is a no no among Native Americans as it's seen as disrespectful) is still pretty meaningful to me, even though I'm sure a lot of people think my name is trashy or an awful misspelling of the color tawny, which wasn't what my grandma and mom were going for at all anyway. They probably didn't even know about the color. lol.